The followingoutline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to health sciences:
Health sciences – those sciences that focus onhealth, orhealth care, as core parts of their subject matter. Health sciences relate to multiple academic disciplines, includingSTEM disciplines and emergingpatient safety disciplines (such associal care research).
Medicine is an applied science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness. Below are some of thebranches of medicine.
Dentistry is the branch ofmedicine that consists of the study,diagnosis, prevention, and treatment ofdiseases, disorders, and conditions of theoral cavity, commonly in thedentition but also theoral mucosa, and of adjacent and related structures and tissues, particularly in the maxillofacial (jaw and facial) area.
Dermatology deals with theskin, its structure, functions, and diseases.
Clinical psychology is a health discipline concerned with the biopsychosocial study of the mind, brain, behavior and the diagnosis, treatment and prevention ofpsychological disorders.
Surgery is the branch of medicine that uses operative techniques to investigate or treat both disease and injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.
Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in nonhuman/animals.
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